Ryan Perry is a research assistant with the microeconomics team in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Perry graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan for her senior thesis "The Impact of Low-Skilled Immigration on the Labor Behavior of High-Skilled American-Born Women: An Extension Into the 21st Century". At the Chicago Fed, she works primarily on labor, immigration, and finance with interests to potentially pursue each in graduate school. Perry is also a 2022 Scholar of the American Economic Association's Summer Program and member of the Sadie Collective.